Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 [Old Version]

by Microsoft

Product Features

• Provides the tools you need to build, customize, and contribute to SharePoint sites using the latest Web design technologies
• Offers extensive support for ASP.NET 2.0, cascading style sheets, and Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation
• Next-generation Microsoft Web technologies help increase productivity while giving you the freedom to create sites that look exactly how you want them
• Integrate business data and build SharePoint Web pages that present and edit data coming from SharePoint lists and document libraries, XML files, Microsoft SQL Server databases, Web services, and enterprise systems
• Workflow Designer lets you automate business processes such as document approval, custom event notification, and other collaboration tasks

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000HCXKKI
• Item model number: 79Q-00007
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 15, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,296 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #34 in Software > Business & Office > Project Management
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 provides you with powerful tools to build, customize, and contribute to SharePoint sites using the latest Web design technologies and established standards in an IT-controlled environment. To make Web design easy, it offers extensive support for ASP.NET 2.0, cascading style sheets, and Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation. Next-generation Microsoft Web technologies help increase productivity while giving you the freedom to create sites that meet your exact specifications.

Use the Contributor Settings dialog to manage Contributor Groups, Editable Regions, and more. View larger.

Develop and Build Better Pages and Sites
Flexible and easy to use, SharePoint Designer 2007 lets you integrate business data and build SharePoint Web pages that present and edit data coming from SharePoint lists and document libraries, XML files, Microsoft SQL Server databases, Web services, and enterprise systems. You can also develop sites compatible with a wide range of browsers and Web standards--even build advanced ASP.NET pages with tools for control hosting, property editing, toolbox and Microsoft IntelliSense. For added peace of mind, SharePoint Designer 2007 can help manage your site by checking for broken links, unused pages, cascading style sheets usage, and master page usage. And to help avoid losing important data, the site backup and restore features make it easy to save your site to a single file for protecting data or moving it to another server.

Manage your master pages with professional-quality design tools that enable you to easily manage styles, layout, and format. View larger.

Enhance Team Productivity and Efficiency
SharePoint Designer 2007 makes it easy to create and deploy interactive solutions on the SharePoint platform, without having to write code. First, Workflow Designer lets you automate business processes such as document approval, custom event notification, and other collaboration tasks. Then, you can create reporting and tracking applications using data views and forms to easily gather and aggregate data from outside your site and from SharePoint lists and document libraries on the Web site. You won't have to worry about time-intensive set-up, either--get started fast with pre-built Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Application Templates, which are fully customizable and extensible. Finally, extend your solutions by building advanced interactive Microsoft ASP.NET pages. Insert and edit controls with the same powerful activity menus and control property grid previously found only in development tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

The Workflow Designer automates business processes like automated task assignment and notification associated with SharePoint lists and document libraries by setting up custom workflow conditions and actions and linking them to the SharePoint data. View larger.

Design Compelling SharePoint Sites
No matter what your organization's needs, SharePoint Designer 2007 provides the professional-quality design tools you need to create great-looking SharePoint pages that are compatible with a wide range of browsers. You'll enjoy an intuitive design experience through a high-quality what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) editor, format SharePoint pages quickly using cascading style sheet (CSS) tools, and easily change the layout and format of your site through full support of ASP.NET master pages.

Maintain Better Control of Your Sites
SharePoint Designer 2007 helps site administrators and IT managers to maintain better control of their sites by giving them control over the use of the software. Managers can take advantage of the Contributor Settings to define every user's role in the SharePoint site in order to make sure workers have access only to the information they need, or they can choose to control access to specific actions such as making changes to the master pages and CSS. to help things run even more smoothly, IT professionals can specify how pages, files, and folders can be used, quickly roll back changes across the site, and help ensure that sites are properly managed and audited for browser compatibility and Web accessibility.

Product Description

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Win32 English CD

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Where are the instructions???, March 16, 2007

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S. Morris-Devore "SMD" (Albuquerque, NM USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

The program is great once you learn to use it. It comes with no guides. The online instructions are a little hard to find and lacking in detail. All of the third party books ("For Dummies") don't come out for months. Does anyone else remember when programs used to come with a "How To" Guide????

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Useless manual, July 5, 2008

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Yiran (Wayland, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I am supposed to use this product to update the web pages monthly for a non-profit organization. After exploring the menus and the manual, I still don't know how and where to start. I usually can figure out in a short time how to use new software however complicated, such as QuarkExpress, InDesign, PageMaker, FrameMaker, Illustrator, Dream Weaver, Front Page, etc., by exploring the menus and the samples with the help of its manual.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lacks documentation, July 7, 2007

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Chris Cormier "Wonderbar" (canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

The online documentation provided is pitiful. Surely a company with the resources Microsoft has can do better than this?? The product works great, has some nice features, like the workflows, but the provided documentation is a joke, more geared towards selling you microsoft-isms (and that "you don't have to write a line of code!") than telling you how to use their product. And the online help is similarly sparse.